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EDITOR'S LETTER

THERE’S THIS GREAT scene in The Paper, a 1994 film about 24 hours in the life of of the hardworking reporters and editors at a financially strapped New York City tabloid newspaper.

The newroom’s top boss, Robert Duvall, tells a story of running up a huge restaurant tab he couldn’t afford with friends as a young man and then being unexpectedly rescued by Pablo Picasso. When his number two in world. You can’t live like them, Alicia. You’ll never keep up. Now, if you try and make this job about the money, you’ll be nothing but miserable, ’cause we don’t get the money—never have, never will.”

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